Interstate 278

Interstate 278 is an interstate highway in the US states of New Jersey and New York. The road runs 35.62 miles from US Route 1-9 in Linden, New Jersey to the Bruckner Interchange in the New York City borough of The Bronx. It is known as the Union Freeway in Union County, New Jersey; the Staten Island Expressway in Staten Island; the Gowanus Expressway in southern Brooklyn; and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway across northern Brooklyn and Queens. I-278 was opened in pieces from the 1930s to the 1960s.